In 980, the emperor Basil II received an unusual gift from Prince Vladimir of Kiev: 6, 000 Varangian warriors, which Basil formed into a new bodyguard known as the Varangian Guard.

The reigns of Vladimir the Great ( 980 – 1015 ) and his son Yaroslav the Wise ( 1019 – 1054 ) constitute the Golden Age of Kiev, which saw the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium and the creation of the first East Slavic written legal code, the Russkaya Pravda.

Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great ( Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь Old Norse as Valdamarr Sveinaldsson,, Vladimir,, Volodymyr ,; c. 958 near Pskov ( perhaps near Volodymyr-Volynskyi ) – 15 July 1015, Berestovo ) was a grand prince of Kiev, ruler of Kievan Rus ' in ( 980 – 1015 ).

By 980 Vladimir had consolidated the Kievan realm from modern day Ukraine to the Baltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarian, Baltic, and Eastern nomads.

Later, Nestor the Chronicler describes a state pantheon introduced by Prince Vladimir in Kiev in 980 CE.

Dažbog ( or Dažboh ) is mentioned in the Primary Chronicle, a history of early Kievan Rus ' as one of seven gods whose statues Prince Vladimir the Great erected in front of his palace in Kiev in 980, when he came to the throne.

* St. Vladimir the Great – Grand Prince of Kiev ( 980 – 1015 ) who converted Kievan Rus ' ( predecessor state of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus ) to Christianity in 988.

* Vladimir I of Kiev ( 980 – 1015 ), medieval ruler of Kievan Rus

In or about 980, Vladimir, on learning that she was betrothed to his half-brother Yaropolk I of Kiev, took Polotsk and forced Rogneda to marry him.

The tryzub was stamped on the gold and silver coins issued by Prince Vladimir the Great ( 980 – 1015 ), might have inherited the symbol from his ancestors ( such as Sviatoslav I Igorevich ) as a dynastic coat of arms and passed it on to his sons, Sviatopolk I ( 1015 – 19 ) and Yaroslav the Wise ( 1019 – 54 ).

Thus, Ilya supposedly served Prince Vladimir of Kiev ( ruled 980 – 1015 ); he fought Batu Khan, the founder of Golden Horde ( c. 1205 – 55 ); he saved Constantine the God-Loving, the tsar of Constantinople, from a monster ( there were a number of Byzantine emperors named Constantine, none of them contemporaries of Prince Vladimir or Batu Khan, and the one most likely to be called " God-loving " was Constantine XI, 1405 – 53 ).

According to the Russian Primary Chronicle, in 980, Vladimir I of Kiev « placed the idols at the hill outside the palace: wooden Perun … and Hors, Dažbog and Stribog and Simargl and Mokosh ».

* Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev 980 – 1015

* Ground Outs: Vladimir Guerrero ( 980 )

In 980 Adalbert finished his studies at Magdeburg school and returned to Prague, where he became a priest.

The Leviathans, episode 885 to 980: Barnabas follows Kitty as Josette to 1795 but is returned to the present by the Leviathans.

In April 2004, Vaughan moved to radio and returned to the " zoo " format, when he replaced Chris Tarrant as the presenter of Capital Breakfast on 95. 8 Capital FM, which saw the listening figures for his show drop from over 1. 3 million to 980, 000 listeners, according to official RAJAR statistics.

When the telephone system was devised, Okinawa was still under U. S. occupation, so when it was returned to Japan in 1972, its telephone numbers were squeezed between Miyazaki ( 98x ) and Kagoshima ( 99x ) and begin with 988, 989, and 980.

Mega Rock did not last long, and the following May, 980 AM returned to simulcasting their FM sister station, now active rock KRXX ( 93X ).

In 1904 there entered 603 vessels with a tonnage of 202, 980, and cleared 608 vessels with a tonnage of 202, 502.

In 1996, the Turkish Cypriot area showed a close, but smaller ratio of paved to unpaved with about 1, 370 km out of 2, 350 km paved and 980 km unpaved.

Al-Kindi ( c. 801 – 873 CE ) links it with disease-like mental states like anger, passion, hatred and depression, while Avicenna ( 980 – 1037 CE ) diagnosed ḥuzn in a lovesick man if his pulse increased drastically when the name of the girl he loved was spoken.

As of 2004, 980 kilometers of motorways are suited with electronic traffic signalization.

The most common example is the Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier ( EDFA ), where the core of a silica fiber is doped with trivalent Erbium ions and can be efficiently pumped with a laser at a wavelength of 980 nm or 1, 480 nm, and exhibits gain in the 1, 550 nm region.

From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal authority.

His body was reburied with great ceremony at Shaftesbury Abbey early in 980.

The Rose Garden, which opened in 1995, can seat a total of 19, 980 spectators for basketball games ; capacity increases to 20, 580 with standing room.

There were 21, 980 households out of which 32. 80 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61. 20 % were married couples living together, 9. 90 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 24. 80 % were non-families.

He fled with his son Erik to northwest Iceland, where he died before 980.

980 BCE also proved an excellent match with another date, one calculated from the Scriptural texts related to the reign of Solomon.

With 980 BCE as the starting date for Hiram, his twelfth year would be 969 or 968 BCE, in excellent agreement with the Biblical date for this event.

There were 980 households out of which 23. 10 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54. 60 % were married couples living together, 7. 90 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 34. 80 % were non-families.

There were 9, 980 households out of which 29. 90 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58. 00 % were married couples living together, 9. 90 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 28. 50 % were non-families.

There were 26, 980 households out of which 31. 20 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53. 80 % were married couples living together, 9. 80 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 33. 50 % were non-families.

There were 2, 980 households out of which 38. 50 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56. 30 % were married couples living together, 12. 70 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 25. 80 % were non-families.

There were 3, 980 households out of which 31. 60 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59. 80 % were married couples living together, 8. 20 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 27. 80 % were non-families.

In 980 Hywel faced a challenge from Iago's son, Custennin ab Iago, who attacked Anglesey in alliance with Godfrey Haraldsson, a Viking chief from the Isle of Man.

* Yaropolk I of Kiev ( Yaropolk Svyatoslavich ) ( about 950 – 980 )

* Around 980 – 982, Eric the Red discovered Greenland, geographically and geologically a part of the Americas.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.

** This is a distinguished work which stands out from, and above, many of the books and articles which have ben written in this century on Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā ) ( A. D. 980 – 1037 ).

The average rate for a one room apartment was 602. 27 CHF ( US $ 480, £ 270, € 390 ), a two room apartment was about 846. 52 CHF ( US $ 680, £ 380, € 540 ), a three room apartment was about 1054. 14 CHF ( US $ 840, £ 470, € 670 ) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 2185. 24 CHF ( US $ 1750, £ 980, € 1400 ).

There are 980 km ( 56 mi ) of navigable rivers, canals, and numerous coastal lagoons.

Centuries later, the Islamic philosopher Avicenna ( c. 980 – 1037 ) inquired into the question of being, in which he distinguished between essence ( Mahiat ) and existence ( Wujud ).

Ethiopia shelters 66, 980 refugees from Sudan, most of whom live in refugee camps in the Benishangul-Gumuz and Gambela Regions.

Erbium-doped glasses or crystals can be used as optical amplification media, where erbium ( III ) ions are optically pumped at around 980 nm or 1480 nm and then radiate light at 1530 nm in stimulated emission.

In Japan, Godzilla vs. Megalon sold approximately 980, 000 tickets.

Ibn Sina ( 980 – 1037 ), known by the Latin name Avicenna, was a medical researcher from Bukhara, Uzbekistan responsible for important contributions to the disciplines of physics, optics, philosophy and medicine.

In June 2008, it was reported that 4, 980 people were employed full-time in the construction and quarrying sector.

17, 691 ( 1997 ), 141, 006 ( March 2001 ), 303, 980, i. e. 75. 8 per 100 population ( 2004 )

The Polish-German agreement was concluded in the spring or possibly summer of 980, because in November of that year Otto II left his country and went to Italy.